Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-12-06


smiles and blushes, with the consciousness
that It was the last time as a maiden.
! came trippins down the street. went
cut to meet her. This bush, not half as
large as il is now, stood here in nv Win
( dow.
:" oh, said my bride that was to be. in
q pretty rapture, Nancy has sold you her
rose! Did you cross 1t root and br.. ..nch
with silver coins'
Not l. Nancy gave it to me of her
! own sweet will
| "A jealous flush came over my girls
| proud face.
:" L thought, she said, that Your visits
there were more frequent than her Illness
called for. You love her, and II you are
fair To her you are false to me-
Il made u sharp reply. She had charged
me with double dealing. We were both
terribly angry. The next morning we
Were To have been married. That was
fifteen years ago. and we have never
spoken together since. Nancy was going
away To fulfill a promise made in child.
hood, and she gave me her rose because
had saved her life for her lover Per
haps l had; but she had unknowingly
ruined mine. l kept the bush. and il has
blOssomed every month with all its might
More than one young mother has begged
of me some dainty buds to clasp in her
dead baby's hand, and many a bride has
pleaded with sweet lips for Just few
blossoms to gem her hair. have denied
them all, and have never cut one of the
flowers until IL withered from the stem
1t was not for Nancy's sake, either. bu,
somehow for the life that was TO have
blessed mine"
But you did not love your sweetheart
much, ventured Lottie. winking off the
salt drops that had collected on her Ion.
lashes.
Not love her.'' ruared the doctor.
''Zounds! can chit like yon undertake
TO gauge the depths OF mans soul"
If You had you would have acted diff
ferently," bravely asserted this small
council of one, sitting in Judgment, with
her chin resting on her hand.
Acted differently" thundered the
irate doctor. Pray, Miss Wisdom, how
should l have acted,'
You would have said to your sweet |
heart, 4 do not love Nancy, but do love |
her rose. She is going away and gave il |
to me in gratitude But / give the rose
and myself and all that have To You, be- |
cause love you better than all the world
Then, don't You Sc" that everything would |
have been smooth, and you would have |
been all these years fun Of joy!"
POUNDS! so | shouldr' exclaimed the |
excited doctor, rising TO his feet. John, |
come in here" he called. Help me |
wrap up this rose tree. There, put it on
your hand sled and draw it hoQe for this |
youn-. lady and SCI it in the house. And
you, little miss, present it with my COM
Mi k...-f shne 20 1
rietta Henshaw. Good heavens. what a
fool.' said the doctor, striking his bald
head vigorous thump when left alone.
Lo!tie did AS she was bid,len, giving
Aunt Hetta such n galvanic shock rs to
paralyze her; but the good lady came to
enough TO glance furtively down the street
TO see really that the .'impertinent white
thing was no longer staring at her from
the doctors bay window. She had bay
too. looking southwark, and into
1t she contrived To roll the great box with
its wealth of white blossoms
The doctor, looking stealthily ont from
his dismantled corner, drew his own con-
clusions.
"Ahem"' said Miss Hetta. "How long
would it take to work that nonsense you
were talking abouts'
II could get it done by night" Gasped
Lottie, all Of delicious tremble.
''Well, child, did not mean to be cross.
Take this and do as you please with it"
LOttie's hand closed quickly over the
gold coin; she did not need O tenth OF it,
md she worked the whole afternoon, to
he detriment Of her blue eyes and the
Oss of her supper, till ON garnet ribbon
! broad satin stitch Of gold, Ornamented
with tiny forget-me- nots, lettered out tho
II. Il. NJ. which stood not for Her Britain
tic Majesty, but some one every bit ,as
egal-Henry b. Msrvers, otherwise Har-
y.
She had run down TO the hall, which
vas flooded with light, and greeted Harry,
md had just secured the hatband in his
lat when The parlsr doors were thrown
'pen, and there stood Aunt Hetta blush
ng through the frosts Of forty winters,
With great heaps Of white roses massed in
Ter hair AMI clustered on her bosom DR..
Beach, pompOus and portly, was at her
ide III
Here, little MISS" he shouted, you I
nd that rascal run for the parson''
The willy physician had armed himself I
With ring and 4 strip of paper signed by /
he town clerk, and before one could say
Jack Robinson" the knot was tied that |
Miss Henrietta Henshaw into I
irs. DIR. Beach. C
Lottie was so bewildered that she could f,
ever tell whether she said yea or nay
vhen Henry asked her to be his wife. '
5ut the young rascal seems to know, for I
e is building wondrous castles in the
ir.
In the sunny parlor, close beside the
reat rose tree, stands an elegant piano
birthday Offering to ''little miss" from q
er Uncle Doctor. r.'-Cleveland Sun d